64 stories by "Sandra Mardenfeld"
Mieko Gavia as Lou Salome. Photo credit: Jody Christopherson.More than 100 black and white copies of photos and letters, adhered on black stock, suspend from the rafters and hang on the wa…
The Sam Gold-helmed version of The Glass Menagerie isn't for everyone (as you can see by reviews here and here ), but this stripped-down version of Tennessee William…
Jay and his mentor--from The Royale. Photo by Charles Erickson I marvel at how many shows Wendy and Liz saw last year. I come in under two dozen--and, even then, I am still playing catc…
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 is a puzzle to me. Because the show is invigorating, original, and evocative and, yet, also overbearing in its intensity. Based on 70-pages of L…
There must be something in the water ... at least, in Padua. The first of two productions of The Taming of the Shrew featuring an all-female cast opened on April 16 at the Wild Pro…
This wasn't my favorite theater season. Yes, it had the sublime Fun Home, but more often I felt mixed about the just-under two-dozen shows I saw. I enjoyed parts, but not always the whole ex…
I saw something I've never seen when I went to an October evening preview of Allegiance: a 69-question survey taped to my seat. From queries about story lines and characters to why you chose…
The intimate atmosphere of the Minetta Lane Theater -- a venue that seats just under 400 -- provides a perfect place for Company XIV's 2015-2016 season. With their signature slinky and sexy …
The MCC Theater's latest offering, The Legend of Georgia McBride, shows drag queens at work: those that dress up as a sparkly symbol of protest against discrimination; those who are just bor…
Three Reasons to Go See One of Shakespeare's Least Liked PlaysThere are four days left to see Cymbeline, the second offering of The Public's annual Free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delaco…
Yo ho ho ... here be the tales of some of the most infamous women pirates known. Staged on the 100-year-old Lehigh Valley Barge No. 79 in Red Hook, also home to The Waterfront Museum, Blood …
Doctor Zhivago closes today after just 49 performances (including previews) ... and that's a shame. Because even though it mostly deserves the mixed to negative reviews it received, the show…
Photo Credit: Carol RoseggAlan Alda and Candice Bergen replaced Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy as the two life-long pen pals that rarely physically connect in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters at …
A slight, but emotional play by John Patrick Shanley (Doubt--Tony Award/Pulitzer Prize), Outside Mullingar excels at beautifying life's minutiae without delving deeply into its complexities.…
The cast of Blessed Unrest's A Christmas Carol. Photo by Alan Roche 'Tis the season when perennial favorites, such as A Christmas Carol, come to visit. Just as Scrooge's three spirits s…
I'm always late to the party"so it is predictable for me to see a show days before its closing. But Romeo and Juliet, which ends on Sunday, deserves an audience. The first Broadway revival o…
Love and the fools it makes of us sets the background for The Public Theater's world premiere of a new musical version of Love's Labour's Lost, the second show of The Public's 2013 free Shak…
Carlo Adinolfi as Geppetto/Photo credit: Stefan Hagen Even before Geppetto (Carlo Adinolfi) walks into his workshop, the simple set reflects a yearning of years gone past. Its brick wa…
Matilda, both the musical that opens tonight, and its source material"the beloved 1988 Roald Dahl children's novel"challenges the typical mythology of childhood, where angelic preschoolers g…
--> Cinderella (Laura Osnes) and her Prince (Santino Fontana) dance at the ball.Photo credit: Carol RoseggWhat does a girl need to do for a little attention? In the new version of R…
Even as the audience finds their seats at Manhattan Theater Club's presentation of The Other Place, the juxtaposition of human strength and fragility and the whisper of the bridge between, s…
--> Photo by Charlie WinterThis Halloween, AliveWire Theatrics provides a sepulchral journey to self-discovery with You Will Make a Difference, a collaboratively created show more e…
Changing the sex of the characters in the workinggirls productions presentation of ART, the Yasmina Reza play that swept the 1998 awards season (Tony, New York Drama Critics' Circle and Even…
Ricky Martin gives good lean"posing against a wall, languishing next to a pillar, and climbing a ladder, tilting his body precariously away from the rungs. Despite a voice that merely hits t…
Fairytales should seem magical"and parts of this prequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, (adapted by Jersey Boys co-writer Rick Elice from humor writer Dave Barry and suspense novelist Ridley Pe…
